The Safari Utility and Gas Management system is a nomination, balancing and supply management system built for the diverse operating rules of any utility market. Safari Gas Management saves time and reduces errors by integrating and automating the processes of forecasting, meter data collection, daily/monthly balancing, storage management and optimization, and nominations.

Safari Gas Management helps EnSite clients avoid penalties by incorporating utility-specific operating rules along with automated balancing processes. The system saves time and optimizes energy purchases with automatic load forecasting and weather normalization. It helps increase profits by extracting the maximum value from balancing and storage assets in applicable utility markets. Safari Gas Management reduces back office transaction costs and improves response time to dynamic market conditions.

EnSite Safari Suite^® provides a comprehensive and flexible platform for gas management, which translates into a competitive advantage through agile, accurate and timely operations.

User Benefits

• Eliminate costly data entry with automated utility data interfaces.
• Optimize margins and assets with tariff logic for storage planning, volume balancing, critical day management and penalty avoidance.
• Reduce forecasting time and optimize energy purchases through automated load profiling/weather normalization by nomination group or account.
• Produce accurate daily forecasts to minimize imbalances using a predefined weekly pattern.
• Save time by setting up strategies for automatic nomination recommendations.
• Prevent errors with automatically generated nomination reports (i.e. paper, fax, electronic).
• Improve data integrity by securing nominations prior to a selected date.
• Save time by prorating and allocating volumes automatically by utility and pipeline.
• Improve gas operations management tools with a summary view of utility and nomination groups.
• Improve account management by tracking notes of customer communications and operational decisions.
• Improve cash flow and customer satisfaction using tariff models for tariff billing, estimating distribution charges and creating savings reports.